DIPLOMACY: Turks, Greeks, Congress and Carter

One of the world's troublesome flash
points, the eastern Mediterranean, involves not just two adversaries
but four Greece against Turkey, and the U.S. Congress against the
White House. An increasing hazard of this four-way face-off: an open,
ugly military confrontation between Greece and Turkey, possibly as
early as this summer.

The underlying cause of the trouble is Cyprus. Three years ago, after an
Athens-inspired coup against President-Archbishop Makarios, Turkey
invaded the island to protect its Turkish minority. A strongly
pro-Greek U.S. Congress responded by cutting off military aid to
Ankara, which...